Dracula by Bram stoker, plot, the myth of Vlad Tepes and reader response analysis.

1. DRACULA
By Bram Stoker

2. BRAM STOKER
• Was born in Contlarf (near Dublin, Ireland) on
November 8 of 1847.
• He met the actor Henry Irving in 1876, two
years later became the acting manager at the
Lyceum Theater.
• His first novel The Snake’s Pass was published
in 1890.

3. •Dracula was published on 1890:
• He started the novel on 1890, year it was rumored he
entered the order of the Golden Dawn.
• Epistolary novel that appears written in the form of
realistic diaries.
• Stoker died on April 20, 1912 in London.

4. DRACULA
Master/servant
Renfield
Employer
Victims
Engaged Doctor/patient
Jonathan Harker Mina Murray
Lucy Westenra
Arthur Holmwood suitors
Dr. John Seward
Quincey Morris Mentor
Dr. Van Helsing

5. PLOT
Jonathan Harker, travels to Count
Dracula’s castle, and finds himself
prisoner of the Count.
Jonathan falls under the spell of three
beautiful and seductive women.

6. Lucy receives three marriage proposals
Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood and
John Seward.
Mina finds Lucy in the town cemetery
and believes she has seen a dark figure
with red eyes over Lucy.

7. All Van Helsing’s efforts to
maintain Lucy healthy fail
A wolf breaks into the Westerna
house and some days later Lucy
dies

8. Lucy is now part of the “Un-Dead” so her fiancée plunges a
stake through her heart and then they cut off her head.

9. Undead:
Such creatures are immortal and immensely
strong. However, they also have certain
weaknesses, they cannot survive without
blood and they must look for shelter in the
earth or in a coffin.
In order to kill Dracula, they must first track
down his fifty boxes of earth

10. Dying, Renfield admits that Dracula often visited him, promising
him flies, spiders, in return for Renfield’s obedience.

11. That night Dracula arrives at the asylum and he
drinks Mina’s blood.
Then, slicing his own chest, he
pressed her lips to the cut and
forced her to drink his blood.

12. Dracula had fled England. The band travels
to Transylvania. Van Helsing and Mina are
now very near the castle.
Van Helsing seals the castle doors with
wafers to deny forever the count’s entry.

13. Jonathan sees Dracula he cuts his throat and Quincey
Morris plunges his knife into the count’s heart.

14. S E V E N Y E A R S PA S S , J O N A T H A N A N D M I N A
H AV E A S O N N A M E D Q U I N C E Y.

15. THE MYTH
Vlad Draculea (son of the dragon) was prince of
Wallachia (Romania) during 1456 to 1462.
He was best known for the cruel punishment he
imposed during his reign in fact impalement
became his favorite method of torture and
execution.

16. READER’S RESPONSE
• Nowadays, people are still seduced by fear, and have curiosity for the supernatural, evil and
frightening; Dracula catches our attention because Vampirism has always been connected
with the manifestation of sexual wishes, and tension between fear and desire.
•Dracula deals with one of the great human conflicts: G O O D V S. E V I L
•Dracula became a classic of gothic horror because it primarily is a projection not only
of the Victorian Age’s fear but also of everyone’s fears and desires.

17. EXCERPT
“In a hard and warlike time he was celebrate that he have more iron nerve, more subtle brain, more
braver heart, than any man. In him some vital principle have in strange way found their utmost. And as
his body keep strong and grow and thrive, so his brain grow too. All this without that diabolic aid
which is surely to him. For it have to yield to the powers that come from, and are, symbolic of good.
And now this is what he is to us. He have infect you, oh forgive me, my dear, that I must say such, but
it is for good of you that I speak. He infect you in such wise, that even if he do no more, you have
only to live, to live in your own old, sweet way, and so in time, death, which is of man's common lot
and with God's sanction, shall make you like to him. This must not be! We have sworn together that it
must not. Thus are we ministers of God's own wish. That the world, and men for whom His Son
die, will not be given over to monsters, whose very existence would defame Him. He have allowed us
to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them
we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.”

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